“Media: The Switchboard Operators Politicians Feared”, The Walrus Magazine
By Danielle Kinahan, Toronto, Aug. 13, 2018
Eight women at the Toronto Star became legends for finding people no reporter… Continue reading
“The Looming Crisis: What If Iran Becomes the Next Syria?”, Der Spiegel
“Catholic Priests Abused 1,000 Children in Pennsylvania, Report Says”, The New York Times
By Laurie Goodstein and Sharon Otterman, Aug. 14, 2018
Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Economic Opportunity, Hunger, Disease, Human Rights, War, Population, Environment, Personal Growth
Stela of Sirenenutet (c) 2016-2018 Lisa Blume & Keith Blume
Updated: The End Of Civilization As We Knew It,… Continue reading
“Italy/Malta: Stop Playing With Refugee Migrant’s Lives By Closing Ports” Amnesty International Ireland
Dublin, 14th August 2018
Responding to news that the authorities in Italy and Malta have closed their ports to Aquarius… Continue reading
“UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen”, UN News
13 August 2018
Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency,… Continue reading
“Moscow crushes the Prague Spring – archive, August 1968”, The Guardian
Compiled by Richard Nelson, London, 10 Aug 2018
How the Guardian reported the Russian and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia,… Continue reading
“Appreciation: Richard Sipe helped uncover pattern of clergy sex abuse”, The Boston Globe
By Michael Rezendes, August 13, 2018
When the Globe Spotlight team began its investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic… Continue reading
“Iranians can’t wait till 2020”, Le Monde diplomatique
By Camelia Entekhabifard, Paris, 10 August 2018
There’s nowhere like Iran to generate weekly, if not daily, headlines… Continue reading